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Worlds Most Dangerous Roads

Road Deaths per 100k of Populations

Source- WHO 2009 Global Status report on Road Safety .

Deaths per 100k

Total deaths

Eritrea

48.4

81

Cook Islands

45.0

6

Egypt

41.6

15983

Libya

40.5

2138

Afghanistan

39.0

1779

Iraq

38.1

1932

Angola

37.7

2358

Niger

37.7

570

United Arab Emirates

37.1

1056

Gambia

36.6

54

Iran

35.8

22918

Mauritania

35.5

262

Ethiopia

35.0

2441

Mozambique

34.7

1952

Sudan

34.7

2227

Tunisia

34.5

1497

Guinea-Bissau

34.4

152

Kenya

34.4

3760

Chad

34.3

814

Tanzania

34.3

2595

All the figures above include all road deaths including drivers of two wheeled vehicles which are obviously the most vulnerable in a collision. Its often argued that the most accurate statistic to measure road safety isn’t fatalities per head of population but fatality per number of miles travelled (known as the VMT -Vehicle Miles Travelled rate). Unfortunately this rate isn’t as widely publicised by country as the more easily attainable ‘per head of population’ figure. The above figures therefore miss out nations such as China which has a huge fatality rate on its roads but doesn’t feature in the ‘most dangerous’ table due to its huge overall population, many who don’t drive. Conversely a tiny nation such as the Cook Islands has a high fatality rate though the total deaths could have been in a single accident!